Advanced acquisition concepts are demonstrated in the Tektronix MDO3104 Oscilloscope. We’ll look at the FastAcq capability in the amazing Tektronix MDO 3000 Series oscilloscope, together with some related signal acquisition concepts. We’re feeding a simple sine wave from the internal arbitrary function generator into one of the analog channel inputs, whereupon it is digitized, placed […]
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VIDEO: Capacitance Measurements Using Various Test Instruments
Capacitance is measured using a multimeter, LCR meter and oscilloscope. Ordinarily, capacitors are provided with the metrics – capacitance and working volts – printed or color-coded on the component. The capacitance as labeled is generally accurate to a reasonable tolerance. For most applications a wide range of values will perform as expected. As for working […]
VIDEO: Connecting a Tektronix MDO 3000 Series Oscilloscope to a Local Area Network
A Tektronix MDO3104 Oscilloscope is networked via Ethernet and WiFi to a Mac laptop computer using a LAN connection. Greetings and welcome to our 65th Test and Measurement video. Today’s topic is a simple and highly effective way to connect a Tektronix Series 3000 oscilloscope to a Local Area Network. There are other options, but […]
VIDEO: Converting Square Wave to Sine Wave
A 680 pf capacitor is used to make a low-pass filter, removing high-frequency harmonics in order to transform a square wave into a crude sine wave. Hi and welcome to our 64th Test and Measurement video. Today we’ll look at an easy and very inexpensive way in this Tektronix MDO 3000 Series oscilloscope to convert […]
VIDEO: Automatic Measurements in the Time Domain
A Tektronix MDO3104 oscilloscope is used to demonstrate the use of Automatic Measurements as a troubleshooting and design tool. Greetings and welcome to our 63rd Test and Measurement Video. Today we’ll look at taking automatic measurements in the time domain, using the Tektronix MDO 3104 oscilloscope. First, we’ll need a signal to measure. A Tektronix […]
VIDEO: Tektronix MDO3104 Oscilloscope Frequency Domain Menu Elements
A Survey of items appearing in the Tektronix 3000 Series oscilloscope frequency domain display. Greetings and welcome to our 62nd Test and Measurement video. We’ll be checking out an interesting topic: the items that appear in the frequency domain display of the amazing Tektronix MDO 3000 series oscilloscope. These items are separate and distinct from […]
VIDEO: RF Spectral Analysis controls in the Tektronix MDO3104 Oscilloscope
An examination of spectral analysis controls in a Tektronix 3000 Series Oscilloscope along with a Spectrogram demonstration. Hi and welcome to our 60th Test and Measurement video. Today we’ll look at some very interesting Spectral Analysis controls that pertain to the RF input in the amazing Tektronix MDO3104 oscilloscope. First of all, we need a […]
VIDEO: Siglent SHS 1102 Hand-Held Oscilloscope Overview
The Siglent SHS 1102 hand-held oscilloscope is examined using internal square-wave signals that are provided for the purpose of compensating probes. Greetings and welcome to our 59th Test and Measurement Video. This time we’ll examine the amazing Siglent SHS hand-held oscilloscope. This 100 MHz instrument with a sampling rate of one gigasample per second has […]
VIDEO: Using a Fluke Bench-Type Multimeter to Measure DC Output from a Tektronix Programmable Power supply
We connect a Fluke 8808A bench-type multimeter to a Tektronix PWS4305 DC power supply and test both instruments for accuracy. Hello once more and welcome to our 58th Test and Measurement Video. This is Part 2 of a discussion begun in Video 57 in which we demonstrated some interesting aspects of the amazing Fluke 8808A […]
VIDEO: Signals from Siglent SDG 2122X Arbitrary Waveform Generator Displayed in Tektronix MDO3104 Oscilloscope
Two high-end test instruments are connected to display waveforms and Lissajous patterns. Hi and welcome to our 56th Test and Measurement video. Today we’ll do one of my favorite things in the world of electronics, and that is to connect two products by different manufacturers and see them work in concert. Both very high quality […]